"A flawless black diamond . . . luminous."?L'Hebdo (Switzerland)"A knock-out."?Madame Figaro (France)"Kramer's sensuous, close observation casts a hypnotic spell on the narrative, leaving the reader u
Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happin
What is Africa’s own “heart of darkness”? It is what confronts Ayané when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an “outs
